Cynthia Ogden and Allison Aubrey on the American Diet

Guests talked about the American diet and how it had changed over the last 50 years. Among the topics they addressed were growing…
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Guests talked about the American diet and how it had changed over the last 50 years. Among the topics they addressed were growing obesity and diabetes rates; increasing caloric, sugar and carbohydrate content in food; and consumption of fast food and sugary drinks. They responded to telephone calls and electronic communications.

This program was part of C-SPAN’s regular Friday “America by the Numbers” series. close

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*The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.